[Public-List] Butter end

[Stephen Gwyn]

My bitter end is tied to a chunk of wood too big to fit up the hawsepipe.

BTW "bitter end" has nothing to do with the bitterness associated with
seeing disappear over the side. It's the end that goes around the bitts AKA
the Samson post.

In French, it's the almost the same word: bitte. Which is also a slang term
for penis. Possibly because the Samson post on the boss of boats from the
south of France are quite phallic:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointu_%28embarcation%29?wprov=sfla1